The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS Or THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Strike and Carry their Point on a
Compromised Negro Boy Dies OF
Hydrophobia in Dougherty County
Brunswick to Have Refinery Of
Wood Products.
GEORGIA.
Henry Fletcher tcolored), of Neville, who
was tried at the recent term of the Superior
Court for the murder of his first wife and
was acquitted, has just lost his second wife
from disentery.
At Athens Sunday night McGinty & Co. s
mules were let out of the stables by some
malicious parties, and had it not been for
the police, the firm of McGinty & Co.,
would have been greatly Inconvenience
Monday The police caught the animals on
the campus and returned them to the
stables.
A little negro boy named Amos Nelson,
the son of Ed Nalson, died of hydrophobia
on ]. L. Doder's plantation, in the western
part of Dougherty county on Sunday. He
was bitten by dog about four weeks ago
and showed the Cnmistakable symptoms of
rabies on Sunday morning. He had one
CONFUSION after another and suffered ex-
cruciatngly until he died.
A company has been formed, with capt.
tai OF $4,000, to erect at Brunswick a
refinery OF wood products, such as alcohol,
turpentine, rosin, oil, creosote, acetic acid,
etc, provided suitable arrangements can be
made for ground, etc. The crude material
viii be made at the different saw mills along
the line of roads leading to the city, and
only the refining be done at Brunswick
The kitchen, an out house and a large
amount Of provisions and farm supplies, be-
longing to Mrs. Parish FuITnan, in Scots
horo six miles below Miledgeville, were
consumed by fire Thursday evening, just
suffer dinner The loss is about 81 600 with
10 insurance Tho fire is supposed to have
accidentally originated III the supply house.
Mrs. Furman had Just returned from At
lanta, and was sick in bed when the fire
broke out. The dwelling house was saved
from the flames by the work of neighbors.
The Coroner left Gainesville Tuesday to
hold an inquest over the body of a negro,
Babe Stafford, who had died from the
effects of blow on the head inflicted with
the post of chair by Dee Stafford This
was an unprovoked murder, and the ac-
cused will doubtless suffer the extreme
penalty of the law. It seems that the two
boys they are only Is or 20 We IS old, who
have the same surname, but q not related,
were sitting in the cabin with some children
when the children got into fuss, in which
they took a part, with the fatal results
above recorded.
the lumbermen held a meeting and de-
manded of the owners of the Brunswick and
Western road that they put their property
in such a condition as to enable them to get
their freights promptly. The owners asked
for an extension of time, which the lumber
men granted, until Thursday, May s. It
was rumored that the owners had agreed to
put the road in first-class condition in the
next thirty days, and that seventy-five
TailaC 0f NEW gfael raj lg had haat1 ordaTod 20
carry out the agreement. We hope that
this may be true, for it win not only benefit
Brunswicks shipping interest, but will add
to the receipts of the road.
Brunswick Advertiser. The advantages
of this port are not half appreciate We
often speak of our water front" OF! deep
water, u ETC., but we do not realize what we
really have. By way of giving true idea,
we will state that steamer making ten
knots an hour can sail for four hours around
our harbor and not go over the same waters
twice and always be in deep water" and
never out of the harbor, nor out OF sight of
the water tower, and best of all, perfectly
land-locked, and free from the effects OF
storms Few cities can honestly and truly
make such an assertion. Yes. we have has,
Dor room enough, with deep water 10 anchor
in, to float the navies of the world.
The Superior Court at Monticello has adj
SOOQ WDEk was uOlo 10Ilf
and half days. An interesting case was
Anderson Headly (colored), tried for arson,
in burning dwelling in the country in
1854. Anderson was arrested, put in Jail,
escaped with others, was rearrested in Mil
ledgeville and again confined, but this time
in cage. Anderson's so-called second wife
testified both against and for him. claiming
that she told on him from fear of chastise-
ment. The impeachment was overTuled.
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hands and families ON the place of the burn
ing, except Anderson and his wife, testified.
The case went to the jury before shutdown.
The jury was out all night and next day
The case resulted in mistrial.
At Athens Monday morning the worknen
of NJ. B. McCiinty e. Co., engaged in putting
up the public school building, struck A
large number of hands are employed on this
building, and as the city is anxious to have
the building in time for the fall opening of
school, long delay would have been dam
aging to both parties The trouble came
from the fact that workmen and hod car
riers employed on the Bloomfield building
on Clayton street were getting larger pay
than were Mr.. McGintys hands The de-
nland was formally preferred, and after a
short delay Mr.. McGfnty consented to the
request and work was resumed. Mr.. Nc
Ginty stipulated in his consent, however,
D1Aeeo "iaS hchA vi NOIh iHuSb III
earlier and the time of quitting later. Al
together both contractor and hands have
probably made a good thing of the issue
aud work was only suspended short time
Neville, situated as it is, astraddle of Gum
Swamp, a part in Telfair and a part in
Montgomery, is always dull when Superior
Court is in session in either county. Blu,
the court in Montgomery is cut Off in the
midst of its proceedings, consequent upor
the sickness of the Judge, to be reconvened
the first Monday in june SO the tria
which has excited absorbing interest in tina,
section---that of I. j. Davis for the murder
of Tom Miller-will rest until then. In the
meantime Davis viii take lodgings in the
Macon jail The fathers and grandfather,
OF the younger generation of Millers and
Davises were antagonistic to each other. In
''eIays of yore" the MilleIs were wealthy il
cattle and negroes, and the Davise.
were called good livers," and
the two families lived in thC
same militia district and from some cause
they were always in an imbroglio and, the
Davises being noted for physical manhood
and as invulnerable us an alligator, the Mil.
iers imported a man by tho name of Dawson
10 do their fighting Dawson was 200
Founder, a paragon of superior physical
ability, but Tom Davis, the father of T. j.
in fight with him, which lasted over al
hour, came out victorious. Dawson departed
to other chimes and the two families in the
course of time became nominal friends until
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